Books

This best-selling tale is based on the biblical figures of David, Saul, and Absalom. For the many Christians who have experienced pain, loss, and heartache at the hands of other believers, this compelling story offers comfort, healing, and hope. Christian leaders and directors of religious movements throughout the world have recommended this simple, powerful, and beautiful story to their members and staff. You will want to join the thousands who have been profoundly touched by this incomparable story.

Climb the highest mountain by Gene Edwards. Few pieces of Christian literature ever address the subject of division in the body of Christ. Fewer still address the problem of how a Christian should conduct himself in such times and how to survive the aftermath. Every Christian will face division at some time in his life.

Paul’s Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting, Revised Edition by Robert J Banks. About the book: Robert Banks’s widely read Paul’s Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting is once again available to laypeople, pastors, and scholars alike. In this extensively revised edition Banks has rewritten chapters for clarity, taken into account recent scholarship on Paul’s writings, updated and expanded the bibliography, and added an index.

New Day by Milt Rodriguez: New Day is a book about the newness of our Christ. His new creation, new humanity, new covenant, new commandment, new law, new wine skin, new Jerusalem, and much more are explored and discovered in a new and fresh way. The narrative reads as a letter from Jesus Christ to us sharing all that He is and all that He has accomplished.

This week’s find: The Untold Story of the New Testament Church: An Extraordinary Guide to Understanding the New Testament by Frank Viola About the book: This is truly an exceptional book about the New Testament church in its purest form! A scholar of the New Testament Church and a forerunner of modern Church renewal, Frank Viola … Read moreThe Untold Story of the New Testament Church

Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices by Frank Viola and George Barna. Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning? Why do we “dress up” for church? Why does the pastor preach a sermon each week? Why do we have pews, steeples, and choirs?

The Good News About Marriage: Debunking Discouraging Myths about Marriage and Divorce by Shaunti Feldhahn. “Shaunti takes aim at marriage myths that have spread like a cancer through our culture–myths that have become self-fulfilling prophecies. This book is packed with game-changing revelations. Like this one: Not only are most people staying married, they are happy in their marriages!” –Emerson Eggerichs, best-selling author of Love and Respect.

Full of larger-than-life characters, stunning acts of bravery, and heart-rending sacrifice, Tried by Fire narrates the rise and expansion of Christianity from an obscure regional sect to the established faith of the world’s greatest empire with influence extending from India to Ireland, Scandinavia to Ethiopia, and all points in between. William J. Bennett explores the riveting lives of saints and sinners, paupers and kings, merchants and monks who together—and against all odds—changed the world forever.

Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity by Frank Viola. Frank believes the church as we know it today is nothing like what God intended it to be. According to Viola, the first-century church, which should be our pattern, met in homes without any official pastor. All members of the church were involved in worship, spontaneously breaking out with teaching or song as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. Decisions were not made until everyone reached consensus.